'One actor is a perfect fit for his character while the other seems wildly miscast, making it feel like two different shows sandwiched together.”
as Joe and Carole as they vow to take the other down. At this point — months after a Netflix follow-up to “Tiger King,” podcasts such as the one this series is based on , and countless memes and late-night jokes later — anything purporting to shed more light on this particular saga has a high bar to clear in order to be anything less than repetitive. In this respect, “Joe vs. Carole,” despite some decent performances and effective directing from Justin Tipping, rarely justifies its existence.
As the title suggests, Etan Frankel’s “Joe vs. Carole” focuses almost entirely on the rivalry between Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin, though with occasional flashbacks to each of their backstories to further contextualize their extreme actions. The trouble with that structure is that with Joe Exotic in Oklahoma and Carole Baskin in Florida, the “Joe vs. Carole” fight keeps each physically separated from the other in almost every meaningful sense.
The show about Baskin stars “Saturday Night Live” stalwart Kate McKinnon in a workplace comedy about a kooky woman married to a mild-mannered man on a mission to save big cats all across the country. In the episodes containing her pink-tinged flashbacks, Carole’s fraught past with abusive husbands and as a struggling single mom come to light, though still with the singular comedic timing that defines McKinnon’s performance in the present day timeline, too.
The other show that is within “Joe vs. Carole” stars Mitchell as Joe Exotic, the theatrical “Tiger King” himself, as he struggles to keep his grip on his zoo empire despite Carole’s best efforts to shut him down. Mitchell, a uniquely sharp actor with a talent for portraying uniquely compelling queer men, proves perfect casting within seconds of taking the screen. In lesser hands, the role of Joe Exotic could have been a blunt, cartoon disaster.
Whether playing Joe blossoming into himself in flashbacks , Joe as the unlikely Pied Piper of the “unwanted animals” both in cages and in zookeeper uniforms, or Joe as the manic showman the world got to know in “Tiger King,” Mitchell is commanding enough to make his half of the series worth the while. Even if “Joe vs.
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